Here in Birmingham, homicides are way up, we had a big increase last year, and are on a record setting pace this year. There were approx 120 murders in Birmingham in 1992, it was the all time high, they slowly declined to around 60-70, until 2 years ago, then they started rising again, there were approx. 110 last year, and 18 so far this year. I am confident this has nothing to do with the AWB going away, but worry that the libs will use the increase for ammunition. What is the general homicide trend elsewhere? up or down? Also as in most cases the homicides in B'ham are done by someone the victim knows, and are not random, and I can't remember any where a AW was mentioned as the murder weapon.

Originally Posted By sta1treeman: Here in Birmingham, homicides are way up, we had a big increase last year, and are on a record setting pace this year. There were approx 120 murders in Birmingham in 1992, it was the all time high, they slowly declined to around 60-70, until 2 years ago, then they started rising again, there were approx. 110 last year, and 18 so far this year. I am confident this has nothing to do with the AWB going away, but worry that the libs will use the increase for ammunition. What is the general homicide trend elsewhere? up or down? Also as in most cases the homicides in B'ham are done by someone the victim knows, and are not random, and I can't remember any where a AW was mentioned as the murder weapon.

In my little suburb, I haven't noticed. As far as Chicago, I think murder has actually decreased. Don't quote me on this.

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California's gun control must be the cause of our 75% reduction in the amount of crime compared to Alabama. You'll also note that when California passed a law prohibitting the purchase of new pistol gripped rifles that the murder rate in Riverside dropped nearly in half proving that old rifles can't be used in a crime!

San Bernardino has a murder rate of 25.9 per 100,000 which is closer to Birmingham's 35 ... and San Bernardino is the closest thing we have around here to the pits with it's drug gangs. One of the worse places in Los Angeles would be Compton with 46.0 and it's the nastiest place you can imagine.

Damn right it has. Why, just yeasterday two squirrels got into a fight over some acorns.

Jasondcrum: I fully agree with the word 'hazard' when you combine my ass, a speedo and a couple of spun-up magnatron tubes in a big pot of boiling water thats probably spiked with a hint of some dudes baby batter.

California's gun control must be the cause of our 75% reduction in the amount of crime compared to Alabama. You'll also note that when California passed a law prohibitting the purchase of new pistol gripped rifles that the murder rate in Riverside dropped nearly in half proving that old rifles can't be used in a crime!

San Bernardino has a murder rate of 25.9 per 100,000 which is closer to Birmingham's 35 ... and San Bernardino is the closest thing we have around here to the pits with it's drug gangs. One of the worse places in Los Angeles would be Compton with 46.0 and it's the nastiest place you can imagine.

California's gun control must be the cause of our 75% reduction in the amount of crime compared to Alabama. You'll also note that when California passed a law prohibitting the purchase of new pistol gripped rifles that the murder rate in Riverside dropped nearly in half proving that old rifles can't be used in a crime!

San Bernardino has a murder rate of 25.9 per 100,000 which is closer to Birmingham's 35 ... and San Bernardino is the closest thing we have around here to the pits with it's drug gangs. One of the worse places in Los Angeles would be Compton with 46.0 and it's the nastiest place you can imagine.

i think what we are seeing here is the influence of crystal meth. it been here for awhile but over the last couple of years has just really began to boom. most of the shootings we hav had have been ganbanger types or robbery related from what i recall.

for some reason , the crime statistics for the city for the last 6-8 months are " inconclusive".

if you read the arrests for the past 72hours for Harris county every one is either white or black, if your aisian, mexican your white. They had a big stink about racial profiling and they said they arrested too many blacks vs whites, well they fixed that.

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I am in Baton Rouge, LA. Pre Katrina, things were great. Post Katrina....that's another story. We have all of these "evacuees" here that are apparently here to stay. I wanted to live in Baton Rouge because it wasn't "evacuee" infested like New Orleans. Now it seems that BR has become a mini New Orleans.

Originally Posted By donovan007007:I would rather eat a cleveland steamer than own a glock.

Birmingham's murder rate started rising before Katrina, and if the evacuees we have caused crime in general to rise, it wouldn't make it to the news. The majority, probably 95% or above is BM on BM, and inner city. Someone mentioned crystal meth as the reason, it is in the inner city here, but not like in the outlying areas, and homicides outside of the city, have remained about the same. IMO crystal meth isn't the cause of Birminghams increase. I don't know what the cause is, I just worry that the increase will be used for more gun control. Does anyone know what the national statistics are?